Adelaide-class frigate vs Type 054A frigate

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Adelaide-class frigate

Type 054A frigate — licensed reference photograph

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Type 054A frigate

Frigate

Credit

日本防衛省・統合幕僚監部 · CC BY 4.0 · Resized · CC BY 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Adelaide-class frigateoverall

139 m

Length source ↗

Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Adelaide-class frigatelarger figure on 1 of 2

Draught+34%

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 1 of 2

Beam+14%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

17 of 32 rows sourced on both sides

139moverall

134m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

124 m

at waterline

Single source

139 m

overall

Single source

Configuration

Details

Adelaide-class frigate and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Adelaide-class frigate	Type 054A frigate
Power	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller 2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units , 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric azimuth thrusters for maneuvering and docking.^[source]	CODAD , 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts^[source]
Name	Adelaide class^[source]	—
Builders	Todd Pacific Shipyards , Seattle, Washington Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated^[source]	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]
Operators	Royal Australian Navy (former) Chilean Navy^[source]

Preceded by	Daring -class destroyer^[source]	Type 054 frigate^[source]

Succeeded by	Hunter -class frigate^[source]	Type 054B frigate^[source]

Built	21 June 1978 – 21 February 1992^[source]	2005–present^[source]

In service	15 November 1980 – 27 September 2019^[source]	—

In commission	15 November 1980 – 26 October 2019^[source]	2008–present^[source]

Completed	6^[source]	—

Active	2 (Chile)^[source]	46^[source]

Retired	4^[source]	—

Class & type	Modified Oliver Hazard Perry -class guided missile frigate^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	AN/SPS-49 radar Mk 92 fire control system AN/SPS-55 radar FFG 01-04: AN/SQS-56 sonar FFG 05-06: Mulloka sonar^[source]	Type 382 Radar Type 344 Radar (Mineral-ME Band Stand ) target acquisition and SSM fire control radar 4 × MR-90 Front Dome SAM fire control radars MR-36A surface search radar, I-band Type 347G 76 mm gun fire control radar 2 × Racal RM-1290 navigation radars, I-band MGK-335 medium frequency active/passive sonar system H/SJG-206 towed array sonar ZKJ-4B/6 (developed from Thomson-CSF TAVITAC) combat data system HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11 A/B, to be upgraded) SNTI-240 SATCOM AKD5000S Ku band SATCOM^[source]

Armament	8-cell Mk 41 VLS (32 quad-packed Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile ) Mk 13 missile launcher (40-missile magazine, Harpoon and SM-2MR missiles (replaced SM-1MR during refit)) 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm 1 × 20 mm Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx 2 × triple 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes^[source]	1 × 32-cell H/AKJ-16 VLS HHQ-16 SAM Yu-8 anti-submarine missile 2 × 4 YJ-83 anti-ship missiles 1 × H/PJ-26 76 mm naval gun (Type 054A and Type 054A+) or 1 x H/PJ-87 100 mm naval gun (Type 054AG) 2 × 30 mm Type 730 7-barrel gun-based CIWS or Type 1130 11-barrel gun-based CIWS 2 × 3 324 mm Yu-7 torpedo launchers 2 × 6 Type 87 240mm anti-submarine rocket launcher^[source]

Aircraft carried	2 × S-70B Seahawk or 1 × Seahawk and 1 × AS350B Squirrel^[source]	Type 054A: Harbin Z-9 C or Kamov Ka-28 'Helix' Type 054AG: Harbin Z-20 family helicopter including Z-20F anti-submarine version and the Z-20J naval utility version^[source]